Thursday, September 13, 2007

Desirability

There must be a point in every woman's life where her desirability seems to wane. I began to feel the burn of this transition as all of my guy friends seem to be foaming at the mouth for a sleeker, newer model of easy going blonde girl while simultaneously my love interests seem to be turning their attentions to other women who seem to fall into the same genre of female I seem to be in but I guess are somehow doing it better. I started to ease myself into this new era of spinsterhood but perhaps too soon! It seems there are still men out there who find me attractive.

Exhibit A: Thomas in Sweden

I received this message just earlier today. It's true his note is not extremely personal and seems more like a form letter than an expression of true desire and perhaps he's sent this very same note to several hundreds of women but I conjecture that while I might not be alone in receiving this salutation he must have had some criteria for whom he would send this message and I made the cut. That's what's important here: I made the cut. Next,

Exhibit B: Man in the street.
I was walking down to the coffee shop today and there was an older man of color pushing a cart very jolly in nature who looked right at me and said "Niiiiicccce baby!" and he seemed in his right mind. If that's not a ringing endorsement then I don't know what is. You may say "Did someone get this on tape, is there some documented snap shot of this moment?" and I would have to admit that there isn't, so yes it's my word against yours that this took place but what would I gain by fabricating this story?

Exhibit C: Now this is probably the least significant piece of evidence of my desirability because it doesn't really prove anything but perhaps one could infer some attraction here; As I was exiting the coffee shop a bearded gentleman held the door open for me. Maybe it's politeness maybe it's lust. You decide.

So the point here is not that my desirability is lost but that my demographic for who is attracted to me is changing . This doesn't do wonders for my sex life since the demographic for who I'm attracted isn't changing but I'm actually not concerned with my sex life. I just appreciate being appreciated. So "Yar!!!" to the men who still find me attractive. God love em'

2 comments:

hplovecraft68 said...

Well, I think you're hot. I remember when I first started working for my current company, I used to be use to a certain amount of attention from women. I was in my late twenties at the time and the women at work were more into the guys in their early twenties. There was one guy at work that they really seemed to like. They called him "Cute Boy." I knew that if I was 23 instead of 29, they'd like me just as much as they liked him. That's when it really struck me that I was getting older and losing that youthful edge that I used to have.

I'm now 39 and I think that I still look pretty good. Most of my friends are going bald but I'm not. Even though I look good for being 39, I still feel invisible to people in their 20's.

That one thing that I have noticed that does make me feel good about myself is that older women seem to really like me. Women in their late 40s and older give me a lot of attention. I just had to change my expectations a little.

The people I find attractive don't exactly like me but there definitely are other people out there that do like me.

So in when I see you, I feel like I must be like one of the older women who still find me attractive. When I see you and think that you are beautiful, I know that your probably not really that attracted to someone my age. You still want the 23 years old too.

It's one of those ways that life likes to mess with us.

Stay beautiful!

Susan Buice said...

awesomeness.